“Nothing Has Changed”: HBO Chief Casey Bloys Says ‘Euphoria’ Will Shoot Season 3 In New Year
Casey Bloys has damped down speculation that Euphoria’s third season won’t start filming in the new year.
Bloys, who is Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max Content said “nothing has changed”. “Somebody said something online and then this whole thing started. We are shooting the season, I have read the scripts, we’re happy, we’re moving ahead,” he added. “I know the show gets a lot of attention now because it has created some genuine movie stars, and they have various projects that they’re working on. But we are shooting this season, so nothing has changed.”
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This comes after online reports that the Sam Levinson-created show would nix its 2025 shoot and ostensibly coming to an end.
In July, HBO revealed that the third season of the youth-skewing drama would shoot its third season in January, with filming pushed back from 2024 as Levinson was still working on scripts. Bloys also revealed that season three will be eight episodes.
At the time, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network said that all of the principle cast, which includes Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi and recurring player Colman Domingo, returning for a new season with a time jump between them.
The network also allowed cast members to take other jobs such as Eric Dane joining Amazon thriller Countdown.
The speculation seems to have started since many of these stars have been filling up their dance cards. For instance, Zendaya has Dune: Messiah and Christopher Nolan’s new movie, as revealed by Deadline; Elordi signed up to Emerald Fennell’s remake of Wuthering Heights and Sweeney joined Paul Feig’s The Housemaid and Domingo’s own Scandalous.
But many of the cast members have spoken positively about returning to the fictional town of East Highland, California. Sweeney recently said that she was “very excited to jump back into Cassie”.
Maude Apatow, Storm Reid, Alexa Demie, Hunter Schafer, Nika King, Dominic Fike also star in the series.
The show has struggled since the launch of its second season in January 2022; it was hit by the writers and actors strikes in 2023 as well as the unexpected deaths of star Angus Cloud and executive producer Kevin Turen.
Levinson executive produces with Ravi Nandan, Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Zendaya, Will Greenfield, Ashley Levinson, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Gary Lennon, Mirit Toovi, Tmira Yardeni, Yoram Mokady. The series is produced in partnership with A24.
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